Awesome Ideas in Judaism - Session 4 Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World)

(1) We rise to our duty to praise the Master of all...

(2) And so we hope in You, Adonai our God, soon to see Your splendor: That You will sweep idolatry away so that false gods will be utterly destroyed, and that You will perfect the world by your sovereignty so that all humanity will invoke Your name, and all the earth's wicked will return to You, repentant...

(7) I will bring them to My holy mountain, And let them rejoice in My house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and sacrifices, Shall be welcome on My altar.

For My House shall be called, A house of prayer for all peoples.

Rabbi Chanina said, "Because on that day, a schism was created. As it is written, ‘that it separate water from water.’ R. Tavyomi said, "If because of a division made l’taken olam and to stabilize it, ‘it was good’ is not written in connection with that day, how much more so should this apply to a schism that leads to the confusion of the world."

(2) Originally, a husband would bring together a court wherever he was and annul the get. Rabban Gamaliel the Elder established that this should not be done, because of tikkun ha'olam. Originally the husband would change his name, or his wife’s name, or the name of his town or of his wife’s town. Rabban Gamaliel the Elder established that he should write, “The man so-and-so or any name that he has,”; “the woman so-and-so or any name that she has,” because of tikkun ha'olam.

(3) And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that God had done.

Literally, "...on it God ceased from all God's labor that God created to do."

(15) The LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it.